Gefco

Trends

Augmented reality app boosts Gefco’s supply chain productivity

Gefco, a market leader in complex supply chain solutions, has developed an innovative augmented reality (AR) app in partnership with ArtiShock. The company’s freight forwarding department will use the new solution – called Gefco Enterprise …

war for talent

Trends

”Becoming a learning organization helps in winning the war for talent”

The war for talent is far from over. How should your business tackle it? How can you ensure that your company continues to attract and retain the right people? Here, Alfons Willemsen and Hans van …

Coyote Logistics

Software, Trends

Coyote Logistics: ‘Strike a balance between technology and human expertise’

European shippers and carriers are facing many of the same challenges. Furthermore, both types of companies believe in striking the same balance between technology and human expertise in the supply chain. These findings come from …

Jumbo

Trends, Visibility

Jumbo introduces blockchain-based supply chain visibility for tilapia

Dutch grocery retailer Jumbo intends to use blockchain to provide visibility into the tilapia supply chain. Customers will be able to see how the fish travelled all the way from the fish farm in Indonesia …

logistics-service

Blogs

Brexit bottleneck

Even though the Brexit has failed to materialize yet again, it is already starting to have a negative effect on the UK and Dutch economies and their supply chains. Stockpiling by British companies and consumers …

BMW Group

Trends

BMW Group wins prestigious German logistics award

BMW Group has won the Logistik-Preis, the leading annual German logistics award, for its ‘Logistics Next’ project which was launched in 2016. Logistics Next is aimed at using state-of-the-art technologies such as artificial intelligence (AI), …

sustainability

Software, Sustainability, Trends

Big data and analytics hold the key to supply chain sustainability

A sustainable supply chain requires corporate social responsibility to become part of the sourcing agenda. The main topic of discussion at the Sustainability Summit, organized by SAP Ariba in Barcelona, was how to monitor and …

freight transport

Software, Trends

Customs software vendors issue urgent warning

A major challenge looms for countless importers and exporters in Europe. This time it’s not about Brexit or President Trump’s international trade policies, but about the mandatory transition to the new customs declaration management system …

Brexit

Trends

Smart border system tested in run-up to Brexit

In preparation for a no-deal Brexit, a new smart border system between the United Kingdom and the European Union has been operationally tested in France. Geodis, a global expert in transport and logistics, partnered up …

supply chain digitalization

Software, Trends

Supply chain digitalization: cautiously advancing towards the next peak

We are in the midst of the transition from one era to the next: moving from the computer age into the digital age, which is dominated mainly by artificial intelligence. Caution is advised during this …